CC Deniers exposed
Roald B. Larsen
American oil money is pumping up climate change skeptics abroad. Could they
kneecap a post-Copenhagen accord?
By Josh Harkinson | Tue Dec. 22, 2009 3:59 AM PST
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Writing two weeks ago in Poland's most popular tabloid, the Super Express,
an economic analyst named Tomasz Teluk claimed that a potential climate
agreement in Copenhagen might double Poles' electricity bills, hobble his
coal-dependent country, and even lead to one-world government. Fortunately,
he wrote, the "'global warming' scare" has been hugely overblown: "As each
of us learned in elementary school, carbon dioxide is a gas essential to the
development of life, not a poison, so you do not have to eliminate it at any
price."
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http://motherjones.com/environment/2009/12/climate-deniers-atlas-foundation
(obs: 3 sider)
eller hele artikkelen i print-versjon
http://motherjones.com/print/33941
eller p� Common Dreams
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/12/23-2
Jo Stein
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> Writing two weeks ago in Poland's most popular tabloid, the Super
> Express, an economic analyst named Tomasz Teluk claimed that a
> potential climate agreement in Copenhagen might double Poles'
> electricity bills, hobble his coal-dependent country, and even lead
> to one-world government. Fortunately, he wrote, the "'global warming'
> scare" has been hugely overblown: "As each of us learned in
> elementary school, carbon dioxide is a gas essential to the
> development of life, not a poison, so you do not have to eliminate it
> at any price."
...
Recounting his professional history on the Atlas website this summer,
Teluk thanked Kruse for helping to launch his career. He also
mentioned current DCI vice president Henrik Rasmussen and TCS founder
James K. Glassman, a former Undersecretary of State for Public
Diplomacy in the previous administration who now leads the George W.
Bush Institute at Southern Methodist University. (Neither responded
to requests for comment.) Teluk wrote that "it would have been
impossible to create" his own organization without them.
In 2005, Teluk founded the Globalization Institute in Gliwice, a
small city near the Czech border. Shortly before international
climate negotiators gathered in Poland for a final round of
pre-Copenhagen negotiations in late 2008, the Globalization Institute
published a book in Polish titled The Mythology of the Greenhouse
Effect. The book spawned more than a dozen articles in leading Polish
media outlets; several were op-eds penned by Teluk under headlines
such as "Environmentalists Cause the Greenhouse Effect." More
recently, the Globalization Institute and its allies circulated an
open letter to the Copenhagen negotiators demanding "Free trade, no
climate taxes!" and calling climate change "nothing more than a
scientific hypothesis." The institute's science advisory board
includes Cato Institute and Heritage Foundation staffers.
Teluk is confident that he's helping keep Poland out of a global
suicide pact. "We are one of the most recognized groups opposing
'global warming' hysteria," he writes in an email. "We are present in
all mainstream media, dailies, TV, radio and Internet.
Decision-makers read our reports, books and comments." He adds:
"There is no scientific evidence that current global warming is
caused by humans. CO2 is a gas of life, not a poison. We believe that
a movement that calls a gas of life 'a poison' is a movement against
human life."
The Atlas Economic Research Foundation [4] has supported more than 30
foreign think tanks that espouse skepticism about the science of
climate change. Groups in this list promote climate change skepticism
or are members of the Civil Society Coalition on Climate Change [10],
which was organized "as a response to the many biased and alarmist
claims about human-induced climate change."
Lurer p� om alle som poster om "CO2 hysteriet" her p� news er finansiert
av olja? Da kan de raskt avsl�res ved et s�k p� "CO2 hysteriet".
Jeg fors�ker det, og finner kun denne news-meldingen:
http://groups.google.no/group/no.samfunn.naturvern/msg/00597d4f1c1c5528
Et s�k i alle norske medier gir mange treff som dette:
http://www.tu.no/natur/article226175.ece
Det gir blod p� tann, og jeg fors�ker mer avanserte s�k:
http://www.abcnyheter.no/node/47161
--
jo
"Akademikere som er klimatullinger vitner om at utdannelse
noen ganger kan v�re bortkastet." --Jo Stein